Ruby on Rails Sunday, February 3, 2013

Additionally, you can put it inside its own class and use that as necessary.
It'd be similar to the previous answer, but instead of including that behaviour, you'd get an instance of that class and pass in the strings either in #initialize or the method you use to parse and call that method.

~Spaceghost


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Jordon Bedwell <envygeeks@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Linus Pettersson
<linus.pettersson@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have a method that is useful in both models and in views, where would
> be the appropriate place to put it?

# config/initializer/preload_helpers.rb

require "my_app/my_helper"

# lib/my_app/my_helper.rb ->

module MyHelper
  module_function
  def helper
    puts "win"
  end
end

# app/helpers/application_helpers.rb ->

class ApplicationHelpers
  include MyHelper
end

# app/models/my_model.rb ->

class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Myhelper
end


> The method in question just takes two dates as strings, tries to parse them
> and returns all dates in the range between them. It also takes care of the
> issues when the dates are badly formatted etc etc..
>
> This method is being used in several models (so a simple class method in one
> model doesn't seem appropriate) and also in some view helpers.
>
> So, where does this method belong in rails?

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